It was mixed at The Chairworks in Morrison Street, Castleford, near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, mastered at AIR Studios in London.

The recordings started out as simple song based tracks with Tiersen playing acoustic guitar, mandolin and bouzouki.

[5] Ryan Burleson of Consequence similarly noted the wide range of styles: "fortunately, Tiersen’s colorful education [...] doesn’t come together awkwardly or in a way that feels contrived.

Rather, he’s acutely attuned to his strengths, emphasizing his classical, experimental, and pop writing capabilities at just the right moments, sometimes distinct from one another and others in tandem", while also critiquing the "talk/sing method" Tiersen employs at various points on the album, saying "the composer is at his best when he allows his music to speak for itself".

[6] David Sheppard noted in a review for BBC that while the lyrics have, "an understandably ruminative quality, much of the music is uplifting, nonetheless.